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Local councils of the Boy Scouts of America The Ideal Scout, a statue by R. Tait McKenzie in front of the Bruce S. Marks Scout Resource Center, the former headquarters of the Cradle of Liberty Council in Philadelphia Scouting portal The program of the Boy Scouts of America is administered through 248 local councils, with each council covering a geographic area that may vary from a single city ...
This category is intended for council-level and lower articles about the Boy Scouts of America. For BSA national level camps, see Category:National camps of the Boy Scouts of America. Please refer to WP:S-BSA for project guidelines on notability and layout for BSA articles at the council level and below.
No Council City State Founded Defunct Remarks New council 602: 3rd Congressional District Council: Richmond: Virginia: 1924: 1927: Merged into Richmond Area Council 602: 728: 4th Congressional District Council
The Boy Scouts did not track the race of scouts who earned the rank of Eagle. For many years it was thought that Edgar Cunningham , who earned his rank in 1926 as a member of Troop 12 in Waterloo, Iowa in what was then Wapsipinicon Area Council , was the first black recipient of the Eagle rank.
The Blue Ridge Mountains Council is a Boy Scouts of America council located in Roanoke, Virginia, that serves Scouts in southwest and south central Virginia. The Blue Ridge Mountains Council owns and operates the Blue Ridge Scout Reservation in Pulaski County, Virginia , the largest Council-owned Scout reservation in the United States. [ 1 ]
The Horseshoe Scout Reservation is a Scouting America camp owned by Chester County Council.It is located on the Mason-Dixon line separating Pennsylvania and Maryland.The name of the camp derives from the Octoraro Creek, a tributary of the Susquehanna River, that makes a meandering four-mile horseshoe through the property.
The Chester County Council was formed by a charter by the National BSA Council in 1919. It was charged with overseeing the Scouts in Chester County under the leadership of Dr. Arthur A. Schuck, who later became the third Chief Scout Executive in the BSA and who had previously been Deputy Chief Scout Executive under Dr. James West.
The Little Sioux Scout Ranch is a 1,800 acres (7.3 km 2) Scout reservation operated by the Mid-America Council of the Boy Scouts of America. It is located in Little Sioux, Iowa, approximately sixty miles north of Omaha, Nebraska in Iowa's Loess Hills and is approximately 15 minutes east of Interstate 29. [7]